Smart Processes Using Rules

This article by Mauricio Salatino and Esteban Aliverti, authors of jBPM5 Developer Guide, covers some of the common uses of business rules and business processes together. In order to understand how these two worlds are merged inside the Drools & jBPM5 platform, we need to appreciate how a rule engine works. This article covers:

• Good old integration patterns between processes and rules

• A quick introduction to the Drools Rule Engine

• How to leverage the power of the rule engine in our business processes

• Common usage patterns

Securing Portal Contents

In this article by Ken Finnigan, Luca Stancapiano and Piergiorgio Lucidi , authors of GateIn Cookbook, we will cover

• Securing portals

• Securing with JBoss AS

• Securing with Tomcat

• Choosing the JAAS modules

• Creating a login page

• Synchronizing users

• Securing pages

• Securing categories

• Securing applications

• Securing portlets

Moving space between partitions

This article by Curtis Gedak, author of Manage Partitions with GParted How-to reveals how to migrate free disk space to where it is most needed. It can be frustrating to run out of free space in one partition (for example, C:) when another partition (for example, D:) has plenty. In this recipe we cover the steps to migrate free space from one partition to another.

Building the Control-M Infrastructure

Unlike ordinary desktop applications, Control-M is an enterprise-level large-scale batch workload automation platform that handles the execution of end-to-end business processes potentially across the entire organization. Therefore, it is essential to properly plan the batch infrastructure in advance to fully utilize the benefits of Control-M and allow it to fulfill the future growth of the organization's batch needs.

In this article by Qiang Ding, author of BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation , we are going to look at important factors that need to be taken into consideration for building a complete batch infrastructure. We will start with introducing the "Three Ages" towards workload automation. This will be followed by discussions of pre-implementation-related topics, such as batch environment sizing considerations, choices of high availability solutions, storage space requirements, firewall configuration requirements, user experience-related performance concerns, and so on. Once we have the environment planned, we focus on the technical aspects by building a complete sandpit Control-M batch infrastructure.

New Connectivity APIs – Android Beam

In this article by Murat Aydin, the author of Android 4: New features for Application Development, introduces us to new connectivity APIs with Android Ice Cream Sandwich—Android Beam, which uses the NFC hardware of the device. Android Beam allows devices to connect to each other without using a wireless access point. This article will teach us the usage of Android Beam.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Android Beam

• Beaming NdefMessages

Team Foundation Server 2012

Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS 2012) is the latest version of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system. This article by Jakob Ehn and Terje Sandstrom, authors of Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter, covers all the aspects of managing a software product over its complete lifecycle, from inception, through development and the subsequent maintenance phase for as long as it is in use.

Application Packaging in VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

In this article by Peter Björk, authors of VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials, we will cover the packaging process. We'll discuss packaging's best practices the, packaging environment, entry points, the data container, and Package.ini.